Fire in the Lake
1–4 players · best with 4 · ~180 min to play · 2014
kind · Wargame complexity · Heavy
BGG 8.1/10 (3,401 ratings) · weight 4.2/5 · rank #561 View on BGG ↗
Questions here read: Fire in the Lakebg-144189-en-1e
About this game
How do I play? → · Rulebook pages open one at a time from any ruling's citation — we don't hand out whole files. ·
What this table has asked
Asked 10 times · 2 answered · 8 honest abstains
🔧 answerability — what this table has actually asked
- answered ratio
- 20% answered — 2 of 10 attributable asks
- excluded — measurement asks
- 1 measurement ask
- waiting for review
- held for review: 1
- recent asks
- 10 of 10 asks in the last 30 days
outcomes — the rows every figure above was counted from
| outcome | bucket | asks |
|---|---|---|
| ANSWERED Answered | answered | 2 |
| ABSTAINED Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | honest abstain | 8 |
most-asked questions
| question (normalized) | asked | latest outcome |
|---|---|---|
| how do i setup the game? | asked 3 times | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Aug 10, 2026 22:25 |
| how do i take my turn? | asked 2 times | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Aug 10, 2026 22:25 |
| how do i play? | asked once | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Aug 17, 2026 11:56 |
| when does the game end? | asked once | Answered Aug 10, 2026 09:53 |
| describe the initial preparation the board and each player require to start. | asked once | Answered Aug 9, 2026 08:11 |
🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
- the word this page prints
- Heavy
- community weight
- 4.17 of 5
- votes behind it
- 323 weight votes
- community rating
- 8.07 of 10
- ratings behind it
- 3,401 ratings
- rank on BGG — the boardgame subtype
- #561
- players
- 1–4
- best with
- 4 players
- how that best-with count was read
- BGG's own poll summary
- recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
- 1–4
- play time — the min and max BGG reports
- 180 min
- play time — the headline figure BGG reports
- 180 min
- year published
- 2014
- captured
- Aug 10, 2026
- source
- BoardGameGeek XML API
🔧 Kinds — what each one rests on, and when it was approved
- Wargame · the kind of evening
- From this shelf's owner.
- Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.
Kinds are chosen by this shelf's owner. Some start as a suggestion — from BoardGameGeek's listings, or from the rulebook itself — and none of them shows on a listing alone. A person approved each one before it appeared here. Last reviewed Aug 17, 2026.
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